Congo: Nobel laureate in Congo forest appeal

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai has appealed to the world's eight most industrialised countries for urgent action to save the rainforest of the Congo basin, the world's "second largest green lung" after the Amazon. "We do hope that the G8 leaders will agree on some action, including the conservation of African forests in general but the Congo Basin forest ecosystem in particular," Maathai told a meeting of some 50 environment ministers in Rome.